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“Tip from my old industry: Make friends with your professor. Do you know how many sample textbooks publishers send? They can also email them, and when I worked there, we didn’t exactly look into why they were asking for another copy.”
“Another secret: Textbooks are expensive, but the company doesn’t make much money because they spend a ton on research and development, printing, and marketing. Also, the authors (unless they are very popular) have terrible contracts and barely see any money.
I worked in that industry fresh out of college, and it was one of the worst-run companies I’ve seen. They were the nicest people who genuinely cared about education and helping others, but it didn’t change the fact that they budgeted terribly.”
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